People People Music Music

People People Music Music

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Editorial Reviews

For more than a decade, Groove Collective has been transcending categories with one goal in mind: to move listeners' minds and feet. This crew of New York City-based Jazz-Funk-Afrocuban-Electronic stylistic adventurers have been laying down grooves that buzz and always have the crowd on its feet and dancing. Jam? These guys helped shape the modern definition. People, People, Music, Music takes the listener on a musical journey.

Customer Reviews

DOPE

Reviewed by Wayne Bertone, 2008-07-30

this is a pretty dope album. not quite as dope as "We the People," but definitly on the right track. they fell off for a few albums imo, but this is a return to form.

Jazzy comforts.

Reviewed by hal st soul, 2007-02-08

This album marks the return to form for the Collective who release their best album since the classic `We The People'.

After a five years recording hiatus, the New York City acid jazz outfit is back with a leaner sextet lineup, a more Afro-Cuban focus, and the familiar weighty bass lines of Jonathan Maron on his Guild Starfire and Univox Coily.

Maron melds retro funk and terse tumbaos into killer ostinatos on tracks like "What If", the Afrobeat "DFU" (featuring Fred Wesley) and "Outermost".

His playing is chunky but my pick is the aptly titled ballad "Eat No Space".

Listen also to "Forgotten Travellers" and the organ led "6 for Fred".

The Latin cuts kick hard such as "Tito" and "Mambomongo" .

Don't miss the straighter Jazz cuts such as the Hancock cover "Speak Like A Child" that is truly brilliant.

Grammy Nominated Album is fantastic

Reviewed by SoCal Music Fan, 2006-12-08

I really enjoyed this album and think it is among the best albums they have produced. It is hard to take a band that is so good live and bring it into a studio. These guys have done it and it is fantastic. I just read that they were nominated for a Grammy. Congratulations guys!

Great comeback...

Reviewed by Smitty, 2006-06-06

This release by groove collective feature a more focus approach on jazz rhythms with the already present latin flavor. This may have occurred due to the new signing with the Savoy Jazz label. At any rate, it's good music and still has a lot of the "collective" elements. Standout tracks are the loungy "what if" and the smooth "speak like a child". This one is worth getting.

4 years for this?!

Reviewed by simz, 2006-05-31

1. I don't know who mastered this album but is has the worst sound quality I've heard in a very long time. For example, you can faintly hear the high hats and cymbals but the (mediocre) congo playing comes through loud, if not clearly.

2. This album features a ton of, well about 5, guest artists that exists seemingly to only water down the music even further. You should also be a fan of (amateur)horn playing because there are more horns on this album than any previously.

3. This album never gets going. They have, for the most part, abandoned ther funk/ soul style and are trying to play a more straight ahead style of jazz of which many other groups play much better.

4. 2 stars - because it's better than nothing.